A natural history of the senses
By: Diane Ackerman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Senses and sensation; Manners and customs; Human behavior
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-315) and index.
Table of contents: title: Smell.; title: The mute sense; title: A map of smell; title: Of violets and neurons; title: The shape of smell; title: Buckets of light; title: The winter palace of monarchs; title: The oceans inside us; title: Notions and nations of sweat; title: The personality of smell; title: Pheromones; title: Noses; title: Sneezing; title: Smell as camouflage; title: Roses; title: The fallen angel; title: Ansomia; title: Prodigies of smell; title: A famous nose; title: An offering to the gods; title: Cleopatra's heirs; title: Touch.; title: The feeling bubble; title: Speaking of touch; title: First touches; title: What is a touch?; title: The code senders; title: Hair; title: The inner climate; title: The skin has eyes; title: Adventures in the touch dome; title: Animals; title: Tattoos; title: Pain; title: Easing pain; title: The point of pain; title: Kissing; title: The hand; title: Professional touchers; title: Taboos; title: Subliminal touch; title: Taste.; title: The social sense; title: Food and sex; title: The omnivore's picnic; title: Of cannibalism and sacred cows; title: The bloom of a taste bud; title: The ultimate dinner party; title: Macabre meals; title: The heart of craving; title: The psychopharmacology of chocolate; title: In praise of vanilla; title: The truth about truffles; title: Ginger and other medicines; title: How to make moose soup in a hole in the ground, or dine in space; title: Et fugu, Brute? : Food as thrill-seeking; title: Beauty and the beasts; title: Hearing.; title: The hearing heart; title: Phantoms and drapes; title: Jaguar of sweet laughter; title: Loud noises; title: The limits of hearing, the power of sound; title: Deafness; title: Quicksand and whale songs; title: The violin remembers; title: Music and emotion; title: Is music a language?; title: Measure for measure; title: Cathedrals in sound; title: Earth calling; title: Vision.; title: The beholder's eye; title: How to watch the sky; title: Light; title: Color; title: Why leaves turn color in the fall; title: The painter's eye; title: The face of beauty; title: Watching a night launch of the space shuttle; title: The force of an image : ring cycle; title: The round walls of home; title: Synesthesia.; title: Fantasia; title: Courting the muse; title: Postscript